And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

If I ever come back to this world, I will enjoy the spring endlessly.

People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.